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Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz. Credit: Official Polish Government website.

Poland wants to change how Israel conducts Holocaust-study trips

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The Polish government wants to implement new rules regarding visits by Israeli students to study the Holocaust in the country, including reconsidering the presence of armed Israeli guards. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz explained...
Young participants in March of the Living at the Auschwitz concentration camp site. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

Annual Holocaust march faces major challenge as survivors pass away

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The International March of the Living will take place in Poland on April 28 following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Despite the ability to gather in person, organizers say they now face a...
Jewish men, women and children march with bundles down the main thoroughfare in Krakow, Poland, during the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto by Nazi German soldiers, March 1943. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Instytut Pamieci Narodowejvia via Wikimedia Commons.

Mimi Reinhard, who typed out Schindler’s list, dies at 107

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Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jewish men, women and children to be saved from death by Nazi Germany, died in Israel on Friday at the...
Przemyśl, Poland. Credit: Ferdziu via Wikimedia Commons.

Ukraine war refugees and aid workers to celebrate Passover seder in Poland

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Dozens of refugees from the Ukraine war, along with aid workers, have been invited to attend a multifaith Passover seder dinner for some 200 people on April 12 in Przemyśl, in southeastern Poland, to...
Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in Lublin, Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Former largest yeshivah in world becomes refugee camp in Poland for Ukrainian Jews

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A yeshivah in Poland that was once the largest in the world has been converted into a refugee camp for Ukrainian Jews fleeing their home county as Russia’s war continues. Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva operated in...
Jaroslaw Nowak. Source: Screenshot.

Polish diplomat fired after calling country’s Holocaust speech law ‘stupid’

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A Polish diplomat has reportedly been fired after calling his own government’s laws regarding speech centered around the Holocaust “stupid.” Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish Diaspora, made the comments in an...
Polish President Andrzej Duda. Credit: Grabowski Foto/Shutterstock.

Israeli envoy to return to Poland after several months, cites contact from Warsaw

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday it would return the country’s chargé d’affaires to Poland following “signals” from Warsaw that it was seeking reconciliation. Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon was recalled by the ministry in August for...
Polish President Andrzej Duda. Credit: Grabowski Foto/Shutterstock.

Heard again: Cries of ‘Death to the Jews!’ in a Polish city

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In her recent co-authored book Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland’s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives, the Warsaw-based literary scholar Elzbieta Janicka recounts an episode from Poland’s past that sheds a great deal of light on Poland’s...
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Polish heroism during World War II

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After the fall of Poland at the start of World War II, some Polish diplomatic offices in other countries remained open. In Bern, Switzerland, ambassador Aleksander Ładoś and his two principal aides, Stefan Ryniewicz...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid addresses a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, on Nov. 8, 2021. Photo by Oliiver Fitoussi/Flash90.

Lapid condemns ‘horrifying anti-Semitic incident’ in Poland

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Nationalist protesters called for Jews to be killed or expelled from Poland at a rally in the central Polish city of Kalisz on Thursday. Protesters at the rally, held to mark Poland’s Independence Day, blasted...